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calben
calben

Reputation: 1358

Can Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi Compile Code?

I know I can make a CPP or C# or any other "universal app" and deploy it to Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi, but can the Raspberry Pi running Windows compile code? If not, why not?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 113

Answers (1)

Ben Voigt
Ben Voigt

Reputation: 283813

The official Windows IoT FAQ says that Win32 console applications will run (but without a console display).

Therefore you can take any compiler that comes with source code and runs on Win32, compile it as a Win32 console app for the ARMv6 processor architecture, and deploy it on the Pi. I guess you should also create a "universal app" as a UI to allow you to specify source filenames and command-line options.

Of course, the result will be in the binary format that compiler is programmed to produce. I don't know of any C++ compiler that produces PE format files for ARMv6 and also has source code available.

On the other hand, Mono compiles C# into PE format pure-MSIL ("AnyCPU") executables, which should be fine. And you can run those with either Microsoft's .NET or Mono, although not all desktop .NET functionality is supported.

Eventually, you might be able to get the MonoDevelop IDE working, like people have done on Raspbian

Upvotes: 1

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